Sydney Masciarelli WORLD RECORD 1 mile w/ basketball

From the highlights, you can tell why Bueckers is rated so much more highly as a basketball player, namely, a really good handle and superb passing, as well as very good form on her shot. Masciarelli has the sort of easily blockable low shot with not very good form of a lot of this type of player. That being said, I think that Masciarelli might well make a high D1 team, especially with more dedicated practice. It would be very special to be ranked that highly in two quite different sports.

You know what’s nice - seeing a really talented athlete not go crazy about a single sport in hs. She doesn’t seem to be pro level focused on either sport which is so refreshing to see a talent like her not have been pushed to aau or crazy track training.

coach joe wrote:

Ostrander might have a shot to beat it

Especially if it was dribbling a basketball up a mountain in Alaska.

This is impressive as hell, she has a lot going for her, good chance for her to crack my list of favorite runners at some point in the future

VroomVroom wrote:

She's not even a p5 basketball recruit. Let alone WNBA. She plays very low level basketball. Better stick to running.

I bet there's less than 10 BOYS high school cross country runners in her grade that can run faster than her in a 5k and beat her in basketball.

she is a local in my area. shes essentially as good of a hooper as she is a runner. thats a slight generality but she really can hoop. she had D1 bball offers since hs freshman yr.

VroomVroom wrote:

She's not even a p5 basketball recruit. Let alone WNBA. She plays very low level basketball. Better stick to running.

She’s faster than Paige. Not as refined, but aggressive and fast.

trollin' along wrote:

Not sure how good Allie Ostrander was but she played basketball in high school. Doubt she was a 1000-point scorer, though. And barely 5-feet tall.

For those who remember the All American out of South Jersey, Briana Gess, she was a solid hooper and very good ball handler. I wonder what kind of dribble mile she could’ve posted in HS when she was running 4:45.

coach joe wrote:

Here are highlights from the gatorade national player of the year. She's a little flashier than Sydney but based on the highlights there isn't a huge difference in ability. I bet if they were to play 1 on 1 Sydney would only lose 11-8

Keep in mind Sydney doesn't play basketball year round. She's that good at basketball from only playing 4 months of the year. She's also a year younger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTvfJ_ths4

There’s a clear gap in ability level, IMO. The other girl has much better handle, and ability to shift gears and change direction. Also much better court vision. But Sydney can play too.

There is a small clear gap in ability. Sydney is clearly faster, even quicker laterally. Bueckers is better at creating space for a shot, but Sydney will just blow right by you. Considering Sydney only plays basketball 4 months of the year, she's pretty damn good at it.

They are different types of players in college. Bueckers is probably going to be the team's main scoring threat while Masciarelli is going to do everything else. I can see Sydney easily averaging 12-15 ppg, 6+ rebounds and 6+ assists and 3 steals as a freshman in the NCAA just based on her hustle alone.

I don't see why she couldn't be really, really good, but in basketball, competition is everything. You can be called the Jewish Jordan, like Tamir Goodman (?), who was wowing even the Maryland bball coach, but if you're doing so at a low level (Goodman played in a weak private school league), you may well be unable to do anything at a high level. In this case, it looks to me like Masciarelli is good enough to do very well in high D1, but you get exposed very quickly at a higher level if you can't handle or shoot properly. Bueckers presumably played the summer circuit (I'm assuming there is one for girls as well as boys) and proved herself against top comp.

That is super fast!

I have done this event and it is not easy; when you get tired, it is difficult to focus on not losing the ball. If you let the ball get away from you, it becomes a wasted effort.

Coach Stevensen wrote:

Have you ever watched the WNBA? She's already at their skill level.

Has anybody ever watched the WNBA? But really, no she's not. She's not even close.

JO Coach wrote:

trollin' along wrote:

Not sure how good Allie Ostrander was but she played basketball in high school. Doubt she was a 1000-point scorer, though. And barely 5-feet tall.

For those who remember the All American out of South Jersey, Briana Gess, she was a solid hooper and very good ball handler. I wonder what kind of dribble mile she could’ve posted in HS when she was running 4:45.

1500m Olympian Erin Donahue from the early 2000s and also from South Jersey was an all state basketball player in H.S.

zxcvzxcv wrote:

From the highlights, you can tell why Bueckers is rated so much more highly as a basketball player, namely, a really good handle and superb passing, as well as very good form on her shot. Masciarelli has the sort of easily blockable low shot with not very good form of a lot of this type of player. That being said, I think that Masciarelli might well make a high D1 team, especially with more dedicated practice. It would be very special to be ranked that highly in two quite different sports.

According to the Internet, Masciarelli is going to UNC but not going to play basketball (last year, they won their last game, a quarter final 73-23, and were 19-3 against eastern prep schools, so they were not getting a lot of competition), while Paige Bueckers has turned out to be a great player at the college level. The only freshman on the Wooden top 15 list at the end of the regular season, and one of only three underclass athletes on the list, and the only UConn player on the list, she became the first since Maya Moore to be freshman of the year and Big East conference player of the year. She has led UConn to a 21-1 record and #1 ranking in the country.

ESPN: "Bueckers leads UConn in scoring (19.8 PPG), assists (6.2 APG), steals (2.4 SPG) and 3-point shooting (47.6%)."

Here is the new record of 4:58:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVqLBlz4apg

fastimes wrote:Here is the new record of 4:58:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVqLBlz4apg

I'm sure they can go faster as this was done in Provo, Utah at approximately 4,600 ft in elevation.

Could a guy go sub 4 dribbling a basketball? He would have to be perfect dribbling and have 355 speed. This young lady is impressive.

dribbling a basketball is easy, it would be harder to run while carrying a basketball.